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GENUS TAMANDUA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tamandua mean?
• GENUS TAMANDUA (noun)
The noun GENUS TAMANDUA has 1 sense:
1. lesser anteater
Familiarity information: GENUS TAMANDUA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lesser anteater
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("genus Tamandua" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tamandua"):
lesser anteater; tamandu; tamandua; Tamandua tetradactyla (small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America)
Holonyms ("genus Tamandua" is a member of...):
family Myrmecophagidae; Myrmecophagidae (New World anteaters)
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